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Rox Oversight Committee gains land

Winter returns to Roxbury

Now to oversee public and large private parcels in Dudley

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

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The First Church of Roxbury, built in 1803, catches the last rays of the setting sun following a Friday snowstorm. The church, the fourth built on that site since 1632, is Boston’s oldest surviving wooden meeting house from the Federal Period of American architecture.

The work of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee may soon expand, as city officials recently announced that both large privately-held parcels and parcels held by the Department of Neighborhood Development in the Dudley area will be put under the committee’s purview.

The sentiment among some officials and Roxbury neighborhood representatives seems to be that now is the time to seize energy for development, before the opportunity to revitalize vacant parcels slips away, according to members of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee.

“People keep saying that the economic uptick is not going to last very long, so take advantage of the next few years,” said Jorge Martinez, co-chair of the RSMPOC. “The city has been trying to ensure we move as many [parcels] as we can this cycle.”

City Councilor Tito Jackson, however, questioned expanding RSMPOC is the best way to proceed. He raised concerns that the

move would give the BRA too much control over the disposition of Roxbury’s publicly-owned land and expand the RSMPOC’s scope beyond what the body was originally designed for.

The move gives RSMPOC oversight over private parcels of 50,000 square feet or more and over all publicly-owned parcels in what the city regards as the Dudley area for the purpose of its PLAN Dudley Square initiative, according to Nick Martin, communications director for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Specific parcels given to the RSMPOC under this change are 120-122 Roxbury Street, 2 Putnam Place, 116 Roxbury Street, Archer-Bonell, 75-81 Dudley Street and 40-50 Warren Street, Martin said. This gives DND parcels to RSMPOC as well as another BRA-held parcel.

John Barros, city chief of economic development, announced the expansion of oversight at the meeting.

The change is expected to go into effect within the next few months, according to Martinez.

See RSMPOC, page 6

MCAD marks 70th anniversary Past commissioners reflect on progress, challenges

By YAWU MILLER

When he moved to Boston from out of town in the 1960s to work as a community organizer, native New Yorker Alex Rodriguez was taken aback by the racism he encountered in the northern city.

The South End neighborhood where he and his family settled was racially mixed, but when he signed his daughter up for school, he encountered a different reality.

“The blacks and Latinos went to one school, the whites went to another,” he said.

When Rodriguez was appointed a commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in 1975, he began tackling discrimination issues head-on.

“We were dealing with school desegregation, we were dealing with the police department,” he said.

Many black, Latino and Asian job applicants and employees in those racially-tense years faced discrimination. And many turned to the MCAD. Last week, MCAD commissioners past and present gathered at the agency’s Boston headquarters to mark 70 years

of fighting discrimination in Massachusetts.

Panelists who served as commissioners in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s shared the table with current Commission Chairwoman Jamie Williamson to discuss what has changed and what has not at the agency. The discussion was moderated by current MCAD commissioners Charlotte Golar Richie and Sunila Thomas George.

Rodriguez and former Commissioner Jane Edmonds, who served as MCAD chairwoman from 1977

See MCAD, page 21

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Former MCAD commissioners Chuck Walker, Michael Duffy, Alex Rodriguez and Jane Edmonds during a panel discussion marking the agency’s 70th anniversary.

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Fairmount line setback: No DMUs says MBTA

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Efforts to raise the Fairmount Line commuter rail’s performance to the level of rapid transit suffered a serious setback under the Baker administration. Last year the administration halted MBTA plans to purchase a new kind of train that would have allowed for more frequent service and this fall, an MBTA official said they were unlikely to resume those plans.

An important piece of the Fairmount Line improvements hinged on acquiring diesel multiple unit trains, which were scheduled for rollout in 2018. DMUs are lighter than the line’s current trains, so can stop and start more quickly, thus trimming transit times, said Pamela “Mela” Bush-Miles, chair of Fairmount Indigo Transit Coalition and lead organizer for Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. Each DMU car carries its own power source, allowing for them to be added or removed to suit capacity needs.

So far on the Fairmount Line, three of four planned stations have been added, weekend service provided and fares dropped to subway-level prices. The installment of DMUs would mark one of the final steps in improving the line — which currently runs trains twice an hour during rush hour, compared to the 5-10 minute rush hour run-frequency of the subway lines. The greater frequency and flexibility

also was expected to allow the Fairmount line schedule to better match bus schedules, eliminating long waits for transfers.

“DMUs are very crucial to increase frequency,” Bush-Miles said.

“Our goal is to make sure we have the same access to transit as other parts of the city,” Supporters of the DMUs note that the Fairmount Line serves an area where other transit options are scarce. Car ownership rates are low in the predominantly black and Latino areas the line runs through.

“It’s a densely populated area in a community that really depends on transit,” said Rafael Mares, vice president and director of healthy communities and environmental justice for the Conservation Law Foundation.

“You have the Red Line on one side and the Orange Line on the other,” said state Rep. Evandro Carvalho. “The corridor that the Fairmount Line runs through is what some people call a transit desert. The Fairmount Line was supposed to fill that gap.”

Indefinitely on hold

In 2014, then-Governor Deval Patrick announced plans to acquire 30 DMUs by 2018, and his transportation secretary, Richard Davey, intended to direct $240 million to the purchase. This plan was postponed several times, Mares said.

Now word has trickled out to community members that DMU procurement is not in this year’s

budget.

As the MBTA eyes its budget deficits — considering moves like a 10 percent fare hike — DMUs are being put firmly on the backburner.

“It’s kind of a broken promise for the Baker administration to go back and say after all this hard work we’ve done that they’re going to take it out of the budget,” Bush-Miles said.

Rep. Russell Holmes said that at a Sept. 30, 2015 meeting, MBTA Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack revealed that switching to DMUs is more costly than originally imagined.

During the one-and-a-half hour meeting, Pollack told Rep. Holmes, City Councilor Tim McCarthy, Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and Rep. Dan Cullinane that current DMU technology is not advanced enough to make the plan economically compelling.

Until that meeting, Holmes and fellow elected officials had believed that the new train cars could run on the existing train track. “[Originally] we were told the technology was more mature than it was. We heard you can take the same track and put DMU’s on the track,” he said.

Not so.

Pollack told Holmes that using DMUs — or Electric Multiple Units, a more widely-produced kind of train car, promoted by some transit activists as an easier-to-procure alternative DMUs — would require changes to the track and the station heights.

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The other barrier: When the MBTA put out a bid for DMU procurement, only one company responded. This hampers the agency’s ability to negotiate on price, deliverables and other aspects.

All in all: the project did not look favorable to the cost-beleaguered MBTA, Pollack told the officials.

She advised them to drop the cause for now and revisit in a year or two, armed with a more compelling case, Holmes said. In particular, Pollack told him that getting DMUs in part depends on proving a high-level of demand.

She did not express interest in exploring other methods for increasing ride frequency, Holmes added.

Which comes first: the ride or the riders?

A chicken-or-egg debate continues to wage over the Fairmount Line.

According to Holmes, Mares and Bush-Miles, the MBTA has repeatedly questioned why they should invest heavily in a rail line that few people ride. Meanwhile, activists say that few people are able or willing to use a line that lacks so many needed improvements.

Pollack argued that the number of current riders could fit onto one bus, Holmes said.

“[Pollack] was clear to us what we need to do is get ridership up on the line,” he said.

The infrequency of the Fairmount service prevents higher levels of usage and makes it difficult to sync its schedule with other transit lines, also discouraging ridership, Mares said.

Bush-Miles added that ongoing construction of new stations, bridges and switching infrastructure during 2008-2013 further depressed ridership numbers.

Up ahead

Holmes said while he still hopes to find a way to achieve high-frequency rides with minimal need for customizations, this issue will be left for a future battle.

For the moment, his priorities are on two other transit needs: ensuring the construction of Fairmount Line’s Blue Hill Avenue station at Mattapan Square and acquiring needed traffic lights at two intersections. So far, there are no plans to stop the creation of the fourth planned station for the Fairmount Line, but, Holmes cautioned, in this time of scarce MBTA funding, no project is guaranteed.

“All funding is in question,” he said. “I don’t think there’s anything that’s not really at risk.”

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Transit plans had called for replacing the Fairmount Line’s current model of train with lighter, self-powered Diesel Multiple Units — a change that would have allowed for more frequent service.

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MBTA officials have cited low ridership as a reason not to focus funds on improving service on the line. Transit activists argue that the poor service causes the low ridership.

Ward 9 Democrats invite you to Party Caucus When: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, promptly at 10:30 a.m.

Where: Roxse Homes Community Room, 1042 Tremont Street. Enter through Parking Lot in back of building.

Accessible by ramp or stairway.

Why: To elect delegates to the Democratic Party State Convention, to be held June 4, 2016, in Lowell.

Who: Any resident of Ward 9 (lower Roxbury and parts of the South End) who is registered as a Democrat as of January 31, 2016, is eligible to vote or to run for a Delegate position and sit at the Convention. Any member of the public may attend and observe.

Contact for more information: Jeff Ross, Chair, at 617-504-0732, jeffross98@yahoo.com.

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Slave’s coat protected Union POW; now brothers strive to save the coat

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

For 81 years, an old blue coat hung in a trophy case at Gloucester High School, slowly falling into disrepair. Two 11-year-old brothers’ quest to save the artifact sent them unraveling a forgotten history that extends to the Civil War. The coat, given by a slave family to a Union prisoner of war, may have saved the soldier’s life.

In December 1864, Union soldier Albert Bacheler of the Company E of the 12th Regiment New Hampshire Infantry escaped from the infamous Libby Prison in Virginia — a Confederate facility wracked by disease, overcrowding and shortages of everything from food to blankets. As Bacheler journeyed across the countryside, he was helped by the Southern slaves who hid and sheltered him. One slave family gave him the coat to cover his Union uniform.

Saved by slaves

Most accounts of Southern slaves in the Civil War tell of them being pressed into labor for the Confederate army —building fortifications, producing crops for the troops and working in factories and army hospitals — or escaping to the North.

The coat is an emblem of another role slaves played in the Civil War that rarely is heard: active aid to Union soldiers.

“We really thought about how

the slaves helped [Bacheler] was cool,” said George King, who, with his brother Charles, is running a crowd funding campaign to restore the coat. “You generally hear about slaves escaping on the underground railroad and taking shelter and they need help, but in this case it’s a POW that’s being helped by slaves.”

Bacheler eventually was discovered by an all-black Union unit, the 8th United States Colored Cavalry. After the war’s end, Bacheler hung on to the coat. He moved to Gloucester, and became principal and teacher at Gloucester High School in 1883, a position in which he would remain for 30 years.

During this time, Bacheler would bring out the coat as he recounted to his students stories of the war.

“Through the use of his coat [Bacheler] taught his students compassion and determination above all odds,” wrote Adam Curcuru, District Director of Cape Ann Veteran Services, in response to the Kings’ fundraising campaign for the coat.

One of Bacheler’s students was Roger Babson, who went on to become known as an entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist. Among his legacies is the founding of Babson College.

In 1935, six years after Bacheler died, Babson donated the coat to Gloucester High School . The occasion marked the fifth anniversary of the high school’s Cadets, a program Bacheler had founded.

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Albert Bacheler left a mark on many parts of Gloucester in ways that often go unrecognized today, said the King brothers, grade six students at O’Malley Innovation Middle School: “There are lot of things in Gloucester that as a principal and teacher for 30 years he influenced, but nobody knows that it was him, really.”

Among them: Bacheler’s Cadets program, which, over time, evolved into the current Junior Reserve Officer Training Course.

Though many in Gloucester went through JROTC, few recall its origins, the brothers said. They themselves had not known much about Bacheler before their quest to save the coat sent them exploring the city archives and local library.

As George and Charles King seek to raise money and attention for the coat, they have brought to light a piece of Gloucester and Civil War history fallen from many people’s memories.

The coat has begun to take new meaning for many who walked by it every day at the high school, George King said.

“Many people said, ‘Oh yeah, I

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Battle over growing wealth disparity looms large in Democratic primary There is a human proclivity to take for granted today’s circumstances. During the current controversies over the presidential election, there are frequent references to the significance of the black vote. But that was not always the case. Black History Month is a good time to review the effort to develop black political power over the past years.

A major motivation of the Civil Rights Movement was to register blacks to vote. In many places in the South where the black population exceeded the whites, resistance to black suffrage was substantial. While there were numerous stories about the bravery of blacks in confronting white resistance to blacks at the polls, the racial mix on the voting rolls throughout the South was not improving.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower decided that the federal government had to use its authority to effect the needed changes. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 with the primary objective of establishing the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department. The rules regarding voting had always been considered to be exclusively within the jurisdiction of each state; however, the U.S. Department of Justice then asserted that federal standards were required to comply with the U.S. Constitution.

Government lawyers descended on Forrest County, Miss., a classic case of racial discrimination in voter registration. In 1961, blacks were 30 percent of the population but a mere 12 individuals were registered. Gordon Martin, a Boston resident and a Justice Department lawyer, wrote a book “Count Them One by One,” in which he described the confrontation in detail.

With success in Mississippi, civil rights leaders were encouraged to push for a Civil Rights Act in 1964 that made it a federal offense to discriminate in education, employment and places of public accommodation. That effort demonstrated the growth of black political power. Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate for president in 1964, got only 6 percent of the black votes as

a result of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act. This was an enormous drop from Richard Nixon’s 32 percent of the black vote in 1960.

The size of the black voting bloc was further increased by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that made it illegal for states covered by the law to change the government-approved voting rules without official review of the potential affect on black voters. The law originally included most of the states of the Old Confederacy.

The black voting bloc continued to increase in size and, after Goldwater, developed an antipathy for the Republican Party. When one considers the campaigns of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, it is unlikely that there will be much black support for Republicans in the final election. Now the issue is which Democrat to support in the primaries — Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?

The answer is either one, depending upon your primary concerns. Both support essentially progressive proposals, but Sanders brings a major advantage that Clinton does not. He has fired up the Democratic constituents and has raised massive amounts of campaign contributions from small donors. That is the only way to defeat the ability of the plutocrats to buy elections.

Another advantage is that Sanders is mobilizing a populist revolution to end the nation’s wealth disparity. Rather than risk the establishment of a Sanders presidential administration, wealthy Republicans will do whatever is necessary to keep Sanders out of the White House. For this reason, some Clinton supporters insist she is more electable.

Blacks have developed political power. The question now is whether they are willing to employ their might at the polls to support Bernie Sanders, a candidate with the temerity to confront the plutocrats to defeat economic policies that keep blacks impoverished. Clinton is certainly preferable to any of the Republicans, but now is the time to join the revolution to diminish the nation’s wealth inequality.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Supports Douglass statue Our community has been pushing for a monument of the abolition leader Frederick Douglass to be in our Peace Park, right here in Roxbury. We were upset to learn that the Boston Arts Commission does not support the memorial because it wants a redesign of the sculpture, in addition to a new site.

I, along with my family and many of my classmates, disagree with this choice. The proposed sculpture by Mario Chiodo shows

Douglass as a black hero rising from the broken chains of slavery and reaching for freedom.

It’s not right to have a statue of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips in Boston, when Frederick Douglass also played an important role in the movement to abolish slavery. I believe this has something to do with racism. Our urban communities need the inspiration of strong black leaders like Douglass.

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be a dangerous thing. It can change the views and beliefs of many young people. It is important to remember what happened in the past, so you can know what is happening now. Slavery is American history. Everyone should be taught the legacy of leaders like Frederick Douglass; everyone should know who he is and what he stood for. Not acknowledging Frederick Douglass is wrong. We should fight for his legacy.

— Ajarae Walcott, Grade 7 Conservatory Lab Charter School

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Trump and Cruz are the GOP’s, not the Democrat’s, worst nightmare

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON Vice President Joe Biden was not auditioning for a stint on SNL or appealing to divine providence when he quipped to a packed crowd of Democrats last month that the Republicans may have given the Democrats a “gift from the Lord” in the presidential race.

The heavenly gift Biden referred to comes in the form of a Trump or Cruz presidential candidacy. Biden and many other Democrats practically salivate at the thought of either one of them getting the GOP presidential nomination. The conventional wisdom is this will deliver the White House back to the Democrats in a handbasket.

The election walk-over for the Democrats is the nightmare that has haunted the GOP party leaders from the moment that Trump and Cruz declared their candidacies. Both men are the most polarizing presidential ticket candidates since Sarah Palin turned the GOP White House bid into a running Comedy Central riff.

This election go round it’s far worse than when Palin was on the ticket in 2008 and later made some soundings about a 2012 presidential bid. Trump and Cruz have stayed at or near the top of the polls from the start of their campaigns. They both have big, angry, and aroused constituencies, be it Cruz’s evangelicals or Trump’s fed up, white blue collar workers. They are mostly, white, older voters, and they would likely show up at the polls on Election Day for one of the two.

In the past it was fairly easy for GOP party leaders to rid themselves of a party nuisance such as Palin. After all they controlled the money, media spin and party apparatus. They banked that they could maneuver and massage the primaries and convention to ensure that the noise and mischief the outsiders could make would die before the primary season began. That won’t happen this time. Trump has got and will continue to get non-stop, headline coverage from a slavish, fawning media, maintain his mass poll support from the disaffected millions of voters, and will likely get a proportional share of delegates in a number of GOP primaries, win or not. Cruz has a mountainous campaign war chest, the solid support of white protestant conservative evangelicals, and the prestige of holding a national office.

They also have gotten a huge lift from the cast of GOP presidential hopeful competitors. With the exception of the momentary fascination with Ben Carson, the other contenders have wallowed in single digits in the polls, have gotten little to no traction in their campaigns, and have been swallowed in the media rush to Trump and Cruz. The bigger problem for GOP leaders are the voter demographics. The average GOP voter is white, older and conservative.

Legions of these voters are polarized and put-out with their party.

This didn’t just happen overnight. The disaffection has been building for almost a decade. They lambasted presidential contenders John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 for being too deeply tainted by the Washington bureaucratic, compromising and deal making establishment. A huge swatch of the GOP stayed away from the polls in droves during both campaigns. Their sleep in on Election Day was a big reason for McCain and Romney’s defeats. In the near eight year tenure of Obama in the White House, the fury of much of the GOP base to a traditional play by the established Washington rules presidential candidate has risen to a fever pitch.

In the event of a Trump or Cruz break away in the caucuses and primaries, GOP party leaders can do one of three things. They can continue try to rally support behind a Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, the party establishment’s preferred respectable choices. They can pretend to remain neutral, which just gives Cruz and Trump even more room to roam. They can jump on the bandwagon of either one of them. If either one is the eventual party nominee, GOP party leaders, donors and bundlers, and the national and state committees will have no choice but to go full throttle in support of the nominee. Anything less would insure a runaway win for Hillary Clinton, the possible loss of the Senate to the Democrats, put at risk the loss of some GOP controlled statehouses to the Democrats, and worse split the GOP. A Trump or Cruz presidential nomination snub would risk incurring the anger of millions of GOP grassroots voters. That’s a catastrophe that GOP leaders will do all to insure doesn’t happen even if it means holding their nose and backing a Trump or Cruz.

Trump and Cruz, then, are the GOP’s textbook Catch-22. One of them figures as a real possibility for the presidential nomination.

For GOP leaders to not support them almost guarantees a flaming Election Day defeat. But to support them could mean the same.

That’s the GOP’s worst nightmare.

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The issues on people’s minds are the economy, health care and foreign relations. My concern is that the next president might do away with Obamacare.

Inequality. The gap between the rich and the poor and criminal justice reform. This is about what kind of country we’re leaving for our children and grandchildren.

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The candidates this year aren’t good enough. I just wish Obama could get another four years.

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Homeland security, education and housing.

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The candidates aren’t speaking the Housing, unemployment and health truth. They need to talk about how care. they can help the community. Actions speak louder than words.

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of numerous citywide initiatives, including working groups tasked to bridge the district’s alignment to the Common Core, coordinating Acceleration Academies during school vacations and serving on the Extended Learning Time Taskforce, which is helping to plan the implementation of extended learning time for all BPS elementary, middle, and K-8 schools. He is also a member of the BPS Male Educators of Color, who are focused on diversity within the school district and the improvement of educational outcomes for students of color.

Beyond the BPS, Dr. Rose also has worked as a consultant for the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Learning, creating curriculum tasks that were used in professional developments to help large urban districts across the country align to the Common Core. He was a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Data Wise Institute and currently is a lecturer at the University of

Massachusetts Boston in the Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Rose earned a B.S. in communications and an Ed.M from Boston University. He received his doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was asked to present his research multiple times at the university’s annual Night of Scholarship and also served on the initial Doctoral Student Advisory Committee.

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COLIN ROSE Colin Rose has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps for the Boston Public Schools. In his new role, Rose will attack cultural and structural barriers and promote culturally sustaining practices enabling traditionally marginalized students to engage in rigorous curriculums and pedagogy in Boston’s schools, thus creating opportunity and access they need to close performance gaps.

Rose spent the past 10 years an educator at the Higginson/Lewis K-8 School in Roxbury. As part of the leadership team, Dr. Rose was able to serve in many capacities beyond his teaching responsibilities including planning and facilitating professional development, building curriculum with students, parents, and community partners for targeted interventions, as well as taking the role of school leader when the building administrator was away.

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RSMPOC

RSMPOC study area boundary — Dudley Square, Roxbury

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Propelling Dudley planning

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BRA map marking what is considered the boundaries of Dudley Square. Listed parcels include ones currently held and to be added to RSMPOC oversight.

The RSMPOC’s new work in the area will be part of the city’s Dudley Square planning process and incorporated into Imagine Boston 2030. A sense of urgency around planning in Dudley spurred the decision to expand oversight.

“There’s a whole lot that’s got to be done, and we want to get these things in the ground before the cycle gets by us and we’re waiting another 10 or 12 or 15 years to make it happen,” said developer Frederick Fairfield, who joined the RSMPOC in January.

Greater scope has been a longtime request of the committee, and it recently signaled to the city that is prepared to take on more parcels, Martinez said.

“We’ve been making this request for some time now and gotten bits and pieces there and there. And now I think we’re ready to move forward quickly.”

Martinez said he is confident that the RSMPOC’s will move a few of its current parcels within the next several months. The RSMPOC originally was formed to handle 11 parcels; according to Fairfield, it currently holds eight parcels and will prioritize dispatching those.

The committee already has weighed in on the development of several large parcels, such as the Tropical Foods expansion on Parcel 10, Parcel 3 and Bartlett Place.

As of press time, Barros did not respond to questions on the decision to expand committee oversight and how many parcels would be included under the move.

Beefing up the RSMPOC

The RSMPOC is an all-volunteer committee, causing some to wonder if a large increase in parcels could overburden the group.

“Is the committee going to have the capacity for it to do the work?” asked activist and former City Councilor Chuck Turner. “That’s a concern around the issue.”

The BRA seems to be taking some steps to combat this: The agency recently hired one parttime worker to assist the RSMPOC on note-taking, data, research and their website, according to Martinez. The agency also plans to hire a full-time worker to perform assessments of economic feasibility for proposed projects.

Another resource that has worked with the RSMPOC in the past and will continue to do so is The American City Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to urban neighborhood revitalization. The organization prepares reports for the committee on best practices and assessments of particular aspects of a project proposal. One example: an evaluation of the economic viability and value of including a charter school at Bartlett place, Martinez said. RSMPOC cochairs recently re-signed an agreement with TACC. Five members also have joined the committee, filling some vacancies that have persisted for at more than a year, Turner said. The absences at times caused struggles to meet quorum.

Among the new members are Michael Curry, president of the NAACP’s Boston Branch; TrueSee Allah, director of the Suffolk county sheriff ’s department house of corrections; Frederick Fairfield, president of the Dudley Business Merchants Association; Tony Hernandez, director of operations and stewardships for Dudley

Neighbors Incorporated, a nonprofit that manages the Dudley Land Trust; and Marzuq Muhammad, a Roxbury resident.

BRA influence expands

Jackson expressed concerns over moving land from control of the DND — a city department — into control of a body tied to the BRA, a quasi-independent entity.

“It is very problematic that the planning that has occurred over past years will be swept into a BRArun process,” he said. “It needs to be noted that the BRA, unlike the DND, is not a city department.”

Jackson also noted that RSMPOC was originally created to oversee parcels that mostly lie along Melnea Cass Boulevard.

“They were never structured or set up to deal with the whole of the Dudley Square area,” he said.

Which representatives?

The city’s plan comes as Jackson is in the midst of efforts to develop a neighborhood-driven process for planning in Roxbury and revive the long-dormant Roxbury Neighborhood Council — a city-sanctioned body created to ensure neighborhood residents have a say in development decisions “It’s important that the people have the power to determine what happens on land in their community,” he said. “That’s why we have convened more than 300 people to discuss a project we call rebuild Roxbury. The first step is to re-establish the Roxbury Neighborhood Council to give people the governance structure to determine how land is disposed of, what purpose the land is used for and who the land will go to.”

Neighborhood councils — originally established in the 1980s — were made up of board of members elected by residents of the neighborhood the council represents. The Roxbury Neighborhood Council went defunct in the mid-1990s.

The RSMPOC is charged with ensuring development plans follow community priorities outlined in the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan; its duties include public outreach and coordinating public feedback.

In times of vacancy, members are appointed to the RSMPOC by the mayor, after community members or public officials recommend them to the mayor’s office and BRA, Fairfield said.

Turner recalled that at the latest RSMPOC meeting, Barros said the city did not make new outreach to officials for nominations to fill committee vacancies but instead appointed new members from a list of recommended names that been submitted previously.

Only seven of the fifteen members are Roxbury residents, according to the committee’s membership list. As state on RSMPOC’s website, its members are selected to represent “aspects of the Roxbury community” including merchant, neighborhood, religious, tenant and human services organizations and community development corporations, but no residency requirement is stated.

Fairfield — who resides in Canton — grew up in Roxbury and has been active in the area for decades. He said his past roles in the area include 20 years serving as president of Dudley Square Main Streets, several years on the Dudley Square visioning committee and as a renovator/developer of the old Roxbury’s Boys and Girls Club.

Yawu Miller contributed to this article

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Kellogg Foundation launches racial reconciliation initiative

By CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL

In an effort to address the centuries of racism and structural inequality in the United States, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced its plans to establish Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, a program that will illuminate the impact of racism throughout society and bring diverse communities together to find solutions.

While inspired by global reconciliation efforts such as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Gail Christopher, vice president of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, said the unique history of the United States necessitated a new approach.

“There’s nothing for us to go back to in America,” she said.

“Our country was built on the false premise of a hierarchy of human value. That belief has undergirded most of our human history, and is embedded in our structures — our residential segregation patterns, in our opportunity structures and our immigration patterns.”

Established in 1930, the Kellogg Foundation is one of the largest private charitable foundations in the country, with an endowment of over $8 billion. In the past decade, it has invested more than $200 million into organizations working to promote racial healing and eradicate

structural racism.

For its Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, initiative, the foundation has committed $35 million over seven years.

“For America, we think it’s about truth and racial healing from the harm that has created, and transforming ourselves as a country to where we all believe that people have a right to equal opportunity,” Christopher said.

The formation of the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation process was informed by polling data research conducted

by Jonathan Kaufman, director of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.

A growing consensus

By aggregating decades of public opinion polls, Kaufman found that now a majority of Americans believe that more needs to be done to eliminate racism. Eighty-six percent of blacks, 70 percent of Latinos and 53 percent of whites say the country needs to make more changes to give blacks equal rights as whites.

These numbers represent a sharp increase in the public’s acknowledgement of racism.

“Things in the country are not great in terms of race relations,” said Kaufman, “but underlying that is a hopefulness that blacks, whites and Latinos want to get together to try to move to a higher ground to find something better.”

One issue that has seen dramatic changes in public opinion is criminal justice.

“Prisons, mass incarceration and African American dealings with the police were the kinds of issues that prompted white backlash in the 1960s,” said Kaufman.

“Now the polls show that whites are acknowledging there’s a problem. They feel like many blacks do — that blacks aren’t being treated fairly and something needs to be done.”

One reason for this change, he explained, is the prevalence of cell phone videos showing police violence towards unarmed African Americans. “I think it woke whites up and made them come face to face with the reality that African Americans have been talking about for a long time,” he said.

Another reason, said Kaufman, is President Obama.

Through his own advocacy, he has drawn greater attention to issues such as mass incarceration, and in becoming the country’s first black president, he has inspired many Americans to push for racial progress.

“I think that many whites really were very proud that the country elected an African American, even if they disagreed with him politically,” said Kaufman.

“And they don’t want to go back to the country we were before that.”

For Christopher, these new trends indicate the country

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Gail Christopher, vice president of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation. is looking for what the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation enterprise is hoping to provide.

“For the first time you have, even in the white population, a step beyond denial,” she said.

“You have a recognition that there’s a problem. This is a rare moment in history, so we need to do something right now.”

Systems approach

The Kellogg Foundation’s efforts will examine the impact of racism in “all of our systems,” said Christopher, including education, housing, employment, criminal justice and environmental justice.

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While led by the Kellogg Foundation, Christopher said the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation process will be a “multi-sector initiative” that includes businesses, non-profits and local governments.

Christopher hopes that The Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation process will not only bring people together, but will give the country a metric to measure racial progress.

“In the same way that we have economic indicators such as GDP, we want a set of indicators in overcoming the legacy of racism in this country, and we want our country to see itself as needing to be accountable to that,” she said. “The bottom line is, for the children of this generation and future generations, will their opportunity no longer be defined by their race and ethnicity?”

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Roxbury Presbyterian Church offers trauma education program

By NANCY KILBURN

A purple flyer asks, “CAN WE TALK? Are you experiencing trauma or loss? Come, share your voice, share your story.” Let’s heal together.

This is the invitation from Roxbury Presbyterian Church to community members to be part of The Cory Johnson Trauma Education Program. It is a new approach to healing from trauma by providing safe space in which people share their stories, learn about the impact of trauma, and give and receive support for all they are going through. Developed with the support of Partners Health Care, it helps counter disconnection and isolation, while providing a way to begin to integrate

extreme experiences that challenge our ability to make sense of what we have endured. The program was named in honor of a beloved church member who was murdered five years ago and whose family has played a pivotal role in its creation.

The entry points are monthly gatherings called “Can We Talk?” on the last Thursday of every month. A simple dinner, opening remarks by Rev. Liz Walker, and then time for sharing begins with a saxophone solo by artist-in-residence Curtis Warren. Then one by one, people come to the front to share whatever is weighing on their hearts.

“One of the best things about this program is it gives people to opportunity to just sit and listen if that is all they want to do,”

says licensed therapist Nichelle Thompson.

But more often than not, people start their sharing by saying that they hadn’t been planning to speak, but felt called to. The stories encompass a breadth of human experience such as such as loss of a loved one after a long illness, job loss, homelessness, addiction and recovery, trauma from gun violence, abuse, as well as stories of strength, inspiration and healing.

The depth of honesty by those who speak and the compassionate attention with which the stories are received create a palpable spirit of mutual healing among those gathered. A participant recently shared that this was his “new family.” Because artistic expression is helpful to healing, during the evening two other artists-in-residence

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“The togetherness is very powerful in healing trauma,” says a participant who has been involved since the program started eighteen months ago, “You hear another person pressing on, and you realize, it can be done, it’s possible, so you don’t give up. When your story is out in the open, you can begin to heal.”

Every Thursday night there is some form of trauma support offered at Roxbury Presbyterian Church: a men’s support group; a mind-body healing night; a therapy support group for mothers who have lost children; and periodic “Trauma Education” nights on topics such as the impact of trauma on relationships or the Traumatic Legacy of Racism.

The Cory Johnson Trauma Education Program is just part of the programming offered by Roxbury Presbyterian Church’s non-profit, The Social Impact Center. Many

children whose parents attend the trauma program now come to the Learning Out Loud tutoring on Saturday mornings, with plenty of one-on-one mentoring to help children learn and envision a brighter future.

“It’s really helped a lot of healing for our whole family; it’s like the missing pieces are being filled in,” said one mother.

Over the next few months, The Cory Johnson Trauma Education Program will be working to develop a component that is specifically for youth and young adults, with the aim of having the program in place for the warmer summer months.

Reverend Liz Walker, pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church says, “Our work in trauma here at RPC has enlightened us to some of the real deep needs in this community around violence and mental health, but it has also shown us the resilience in this neighborhood.

People are really building a community of care and that’s vitally important for our future.”

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Although it accounts for only 3 percent of all new cases of cancers in women, ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. It is the second most common cancer of the reproductive system, but the most deadly, killing more women than all other gynecological cancers combined.

The incidence of ovarian cancer is on the decline, but, according to the American Cancer Society, more than 22,000 new cases and 14,200 deaths are estimated for 2016. The incidence and death rate are highest in white women, but black women die at a higher rate than all minorities except for Native Americans.

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Bright plans for Freedom House

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

This year, Freedom House plans to revitalize the Grove Hall library branch into an updated and permanent home, a move that will bring the community more programs and resources.

In 2013, after its longtime site at 14 Crawford Street sustained water damage, Freedom House moved operations into then-vacant former Grove Hall library at the corner of Crawford Street and Warren Street, CEO Katrina Shaw recalled recently.

The organization quickly made fixes to the former library branch to bring it up to code and support the necessary technology for its programming.

Now Freedom House — which leased the space on temporary basis — looks to make bigger changes and a permanent home. The Department of Neighborhood Development tentatively designated the organization as developers of the site and Shaw says construction is slated

to begin in March, with completion by the year’s end.

Community’s house

The Freedom House has a long history in Roxbury of working to promote civil rights and advocacy and educational opportunity. In 2012, its board chose to concentrate efforts on promoting academic achievement for low-income, minority and immigrant youth.

Sheila Dillon, chief and director of the DND, said the department’s request for proposals sought a developer that would bring benefit to the larger community.

“We heard the community say they really wanted these [former] libraries to retain their public use and public benefit and develop in a way so the larger community benefits,” she said.

Planned renovations to the Grove Hall library include features to allow for more simultaneous programming, improved aesthetics and greater accessibility T:5.7” for those with disabilities.

Shaw said Janey Company will handle construction, DREAM Collaborative will be the architects and Chris Shepard and Kariem Van Leesten IV will be the project managers. Schematics and designs have been prepared, she said.

Multipurpose uses

The former library provides one large open space — a design feature that limits number of programs that can happen at a time, Shaw said.

Plans call for creating more meeting rooms, staff offices and classrooms, while incorporating glass elements to preserve a sense of openness, Shaw said. The administration also intends to use features like moveable walls so that the space remains flexible for varied purposes. “[We want to have] more spaces to have confidential conversations with families, while at the same time a computer class is going on next door and at the same time, a class for students trying to recover precalculus credits,” she said.

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Rendering of new Freedom House building. second computer lab to allow simultaneous use by students’ classes and individual residents. Further changes include updating bathrooms to be more accessible to people with disabilities, outdoor landscaping and a new entrance ramp.

Extra features

According to the DND, the project’s projected cost is $1.8 million.

Shaw said the original budget was $1.5 million, but that Freedom House seeks $500,000 - $600,000 more to create further design enhancements.

Enhancements include converting portions of the primarily concrete building exterior to glass, inserting further modular elements to make the space flexible and adding visuals — such as college banners and murals related to higher education. “[Elements could] visually represent the colleges that we work with so that students, when they’re coming here, have a reminder of the possibilities for them,” Shaw said. Anyone walking through the neighborhood would see this reminder as well, she added. “It’s part of creating a mindset of life beyond high school.”

Currently Freedom House has raised $1.5 million toward renovations. Funding sources include a MassDevelopment grant and grants from organizations such as Blue Hills Bank, Bank of America, State Street, Liberty Mutual and the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund.

To afford the additional features, Freedom House is looking for more grants as well as support from local businesses and residents.

Fate of a former home

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While phase 1 of Freedom House’s strategic planning involves developing the library building, phase 2 is deciding what to do with the 14 Crawford Street site. It remains unused other than as a place to store some historical items. Freedom House continues to maintain the interior and exterior, Shaw said.

From a financial perspective, sprucing up 14 Crawford remains daunting.

“It’s cheaper to knock it down than it would be to renovate,” Shaw admitted. When she joined Freedom House in 2012, administrators

estimated they would have to raise $4.5 million to renovate 14 Crawford.

The need to move came sooner than any such funding.

But the old site holds the most memories, because it is where many residents visited over the years. According to archives, visitors included luminaries like Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, Shaw said.

Due to the historical significance and sentimental value to the community, Shaw said that members of Freedom House’s board have been meeting with local residents to explore best uses for the building. The city’s DND helped extend outreach, sending mailings to residents in the surrounding area.

Ideas include using 14 Crawford as a second Freedom House campus, renting it to a suitable organization and partnering with another group to offer services there. Some schools and charitable housing organizations already have approached with partnership proposals.

One condition of any partnership: Part of the property must remain available to the community, in particular the auditorium — a resource the Grove Hall library building does not have.

Full circle

All the businesses working on the renovations are owned by people of color and have ties in the local community, Shaw said. Some collaborators even have been part of the Freedom House community. Greg Janey, president of the company handling construction, attended as a student to figure out college applications, Shaw said.

The collaborators show current students where they might go later in life.

“As the building is going up, it’s also a reflection of our young people of their own possibilities embedded in all of the folks who are working on the space,” Shaw said.

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Not many people know or realize the intricate workings of credit card processing. Electronic payment processors establish the link between businesses and the card issuers, enabling the rapid approval of payments after a credit or debit card is swiped. A day or two later, funds are transmitted from the issuer to the merchant. Easy enough.

Interchange fees are the largest piece of the puzzle. This fee is paid by the merchant to the consumer’s card issuer.

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Obama’s secretaries cite improved climate for blacks

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

President Barack Obama’s economic heavy hitters spoke at the White House last week about how the economy during the current administration has impacted African Americans, namely by lowering the unemployment rate, raising tax credits and improving city infrastructure.

Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Jason Furman pointed out that African Americans were severely impacted by the recession, as much as any group.

“The African American community bore the brunt of the recession, seeing its unemployment rate rise to a high of 16.8 percent in March 2010,” Furman said.

That rate is now 8.8 percent as of January 2016. This number is actually below the pre-recession average. In the past year, the African American unemployment rate has seen a larger percentage-point decline in the recovery, falling almost twice as fast as the overall unemployment rate.

Furman credits the Economic Recovery Act, the auto manufacturer bailout, housing infrastructure and a range of other policies for the economic recovery in general and the impact on unemployment.

Though he was quick to point out it is still not enough.

Furman has been very outspoken that more work needs to be done to close long-standing disparities in the labor market. The African American unemployment rate is still higher than Hispanic unemployment and the overall unemployment rate.

He pointed to a number of government efforts he said can help make sure that the strong labor market — job growth for a record 70 straight months — benefits all.

These include the My Brother’s Keeper initiative for young men of color and new investments in skills training and apprenticeships.

Furman’s points do seem in line with the work done by Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy.

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The African-American community bore the brunt of the recession, seeing its unemployment rate rise to a high of 16.8 percent in March 2010.”

— Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors

Everything that we do is focused on giving every American the chance to get ahead in life and contribute to a growing American economy. We know that when the African American community succeeds, the entire nation succeeds.”

— Julián Castro, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Wilson has repeatedly argued in her research that the African American unemployment rate is critically tied in to how the economy recovers from recessions.

For example, she found that wages of black workers are more responsive to labor market changes. Doubling the national unemployment rate is estimated to reduce real hourly wages by at least 8 percent for the median black worker compared to 3 percent for the median white worker.

Wilson asserts that policy makers have to do whatever they can to continue to help the unemployment rate improve and that this factor is perhaps more critical to the economic prosperity of African Americans more than any other.

For example, during the fiveyear period from 1995-2000 when the annual unemployment rate dropped to 4 percent, Wilson found that: n The black unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent, the lowest rate on record and the closest it has ever been to the white rate (within 4.1 percentage points) during a period of economic expansion. n Real wage growth for African Americans narrowly exceeded that of whites, as median hourly wages of black workers grew by 2 percent per year compared to 1.7 percent per year for whites. n The African American middle class expanded more than in periods of economic recovery when the economy was further from full employment. The share of African American households in the middle 60 percent of the income distribution increased 3 percentage points between 1995 and 2000, while it

declined during the recoveries of the 1980s and the 2000s as well as during the current one.

Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet also spoke at the White House along with Chief Economist Furman. She emphasized the role small businesses have played in the economic recovery and in job creation, tying that in with the administration’s efforts to incorporate diversity strategies into its loan programs for undeserved and minority businesses.

Also speaking to the media were U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx.

According to Foxx, the efforts to increase access to transportation across the U.S., in places such as Detroit and parts of LA, for example, can help African Americans gain access to more jobs, in addition to creating jobs.

“We are working with every agency within the Department of Transportation to ensure that opportunity and inclusion are a part of everything we do,” Foxx added.

HUD Secretary Castro stressed that diversity and inclusion shape the policies of his office as well.

“Everything that we do is focused on giving every American the chance to get ahead in life and contribute to a growing American economy,” Castro said. “We know that when the African American community succeeds, the entire nation succeeds.”

The White House highlighted some initiatives that were specifically designed to boost economic recovery for African Americans.

These include:

n The Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which were expanded to encourage work and help low-income parents afford the costs of raising a family, together providing about 16 million families a year with a tax cut averaging $900. n A proposal for additional tax relief for working- and middle-class families, which would directly reduce poverty and hardship for 13.2 million low-income workers — including about 2 million African-Americans. n Over 1.2 billion in job-training grants and $8 billion in job-training funding to place more Americans in jobs that don’t have enough qualified workers to meet the demand.

While the final grade on the Obama administration’s efforts to improve the economic lives of African Americans won’t be decided just yet, it is interesting to note that many African Americans believe he has done the job.

The latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor report finds that while most of the country believes the national economy is in fair or poor condition (only 21 percent described the economy as excellent or good), communities of color are much more upbeat.

For example, 69 percent of African Americans and 53 percent of Hispanics said they expect their finances to improve, compared to just 35 percent of whites.

African Americans gave Obama the highest marks for his economic efforts, with 69 percent saying he made the economy better. This was followed by all minorities (59 percent) and Hispanics (57 percent).

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BOSTON, February 2, 2016 – Eastern Bank Corporation today announced that Richard E. Holbrook, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Bank and Eastern Bank Corporation since 2007, will retire on December 31, 2016. Holbrook’s retirement concludes more than two decades of leadership during which the company grew more than five times in total assets, more than tripled its number of locations, successfully entered insurance brokerage and several other businesses and significantly expanded its geographic footprint beyond the North Shore of Boston to one that reaches southern New Hampshire and Cape Cod. The Board of Directors announced that it will elect Robert F. Rivers, Eastern Bank’s President and Chief Operating Officer, to succeed Holbrook as Chairman and CEO of both the Bank and the holding company effective January 1, 2017.

In addition, it was also announced that Quincy Miller, previously Massachusetts State President of Citizens Bank and President of its Business Banking division, will join Eastern Bank next month as Vice Chairman and Chief Banking Officer and is expected to succeed Rivers as

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President of Eastern Bank effective January 1, 2017.

“We remain firmly committed to our mission of serving our customers, our employees, and our communities,” said Holbrook, who turns 65 this year. “We are confident that this orderly transition will help Eastern continue its consistent growth and profitability as well as our strong commitment to corporate social responsibility, while delivering superior customer service in this ever-changing and rapidly evolving environment.”

Rivers joined Eastern Bank as Vice Chairman and Chief Banking Officer, becoming President in 2007, Chief Operating Officer in 2012, and an Eastern Bank Director in 2015.

“We intend to continue to grow and build upon the success that

Rich has led since he joined Eastern in 1996,” said Rivers. “Adding Quincy to a very strong leadership team positions us to further elevate our brand, business, and social justice mission as we begin our third century as a company.”

Upon his retirement, Holbrook will continue to serve on Eastern Bank’s Board of Directors.

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“Identifying prospects to redevelop and repurpose underutilized state property to advance economic growth and affordable housing is a valuable avenue to building stronger communities and opportunities for the people of Massachusetts,” Baker said.

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The Commonwealth and City of Boston continue to partner in the development of state-owned land, adding 1,300 units of housing (1/3 of which are affordable), and nearly 500,000 gross square feet of commercial space over the last five years. An additional 3,500 housing units and 2.5 million gross square feet of commercial space are in the project pipeline, which both the state and city are committed to advancing expedited construction, permitting and coordination. Both are collaborating to develop the next round of projects for the pipeline, that in addition to the MassDOT building, includes the development of a jointly-owned property in Lower Roxbury, MBTA-owned parcels in Jamaica Plain and an under-utilized MBTA parking lot near the Mattapan T stop.

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MassDOT’s District 6 Headquarters will be relocated or replaced and a scaled-down version of Veolia North America’s steam plant will be included as part of the redevelopment.

The Baker administration announced the “Open for Business” Real Estate Asset Leveraging strategy in October, which identifies unused or underutilized Commonwealth properties for redevelopment for affordable or market-rate housing, job creation, reduction in government expenses, increased revenue for the Commonwealth as well as local communities, capital investment in state properties, and open recreational space. Over 40 nearterm opportunities throughout Massachusetts and across state agencies and authorities were first highlighted for public-private partnerships, of which 7 are currently under agreement.

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Walsh announces Boston 1on1, a new City Hall to Go engagement initiative Pilot Initiative Encourages New Residents to Meet One on One with City Hall to Go Staff Mayor Martin Walsh announced a new pilot City Hall to Go initiative, Boston 1ON1. This program will allow new Boston residents or a resident moving to a new neighborhood the opportunity to meet one on one in their new neighborhood with a staff member from the Mayor’s City Hall to Go team.

“The City of Boston has many great resources available to residents, and through the City Hall to Go truck we are able to bring these services directly to people in the neighborhoods,” Walsh said.

“With the new Boston 1ON1 initiative, our hope is that by having in-person conversations with new residents, we are able to make people feel welcome in their new neighborhood and provide them with the services they need to get acquainted in their new home.”

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Students decry cuts during School Committee meeting

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The students, parents and teachers who packed last week’s Boston School Committee meeting gave impassioned testimony about the programs, teaching positions and extracurricular activities that stand to be dropped from their schools if Mayor Martin Walsh’s proposed $38 million in budget cuts are incorporated in fiscal year 2017’s final budget.

Interspersed among the students’ pleas was a recurring question about the mayor’s priorities.

“We’re living in a boom town,” said former School Committee member Susan Naimark. “Boston has had record sales of million-dollar condos. It’s not a question of whether the money is there. It’s a question of political priorities.”

The budget cuts have sparked anger among education activists, including a picket line in front of Symphony Hall during the mayor’s State of the City address in January. Students from the Boston Community Leadership Academy high school, protesting the $870,000 reduction to that school’s budget, produced two YouTube videos illustrating the impact of the cuts to their school — which are expected to lead to the elimination of Advanced Placement classes, theatre and advanced level foreign languages, the closing of the library, the loss of four teaching positions and a resulting increase in class size.

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Boston Community Leadership Academy students demonstrated against a proposed $870,000 cut to their school’s budget in next year’s school budget. down by the budget,” said senior Bilal Lafta. “The reason we’re here is because our school teaches us to do this. Our school teaches leadership.”

low-income and special needs students. Because students with disabilities — including many with autism — make up 22.7 percent of BCLA’s student body, the allocation reduction has hit BCLA particularly hard.

BCLA also relies more than other schools on veteran teachers who earn higher salaries. Those factors have combined to result

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The cuts at BCLA come as the BPS has altered its funding formula, which in the past has allocated more funds for schools with

in the school receiving a proposed budget that is 20 percent less than what it received for the current fiscal year — the largest for any school this year At Charlestown High School, due to lose $500,000 from its budget, the Diploma Plus program offers a competency-based curriculum and smaller class sizes for students who are two or more

years behind their grade level. The program will not likely survive the cuts, teachers from the school say.

Luis Aponte, who now maintains a 3.5 GPA at Northeastern University, was homeless when he enrolled in the Diploma Plus program.

“It taught me a lot about myself,” he said of the program.

“I’m a living, breathing example of what this program does.”

School Committee members sat through two hours of student and parent testimony at last week’s meeting, one in a series of community forums and speak-outs about the budget. A town hall meeting at Boston Latin School with city councilors Tito Jackson and Anissa Essaibi George scheduled for Monday night was cancelled due to the snow storm.

A BPS budget hearing also was scheduled for Tuesday evening at the Frederick Middle School. On February 17, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is planning a “walk-in” protest at City Hall at 10 a.m. followed by a march on the State House to call for increased education funding. On February 29, City Councilor Matt O’Malley is holding a meeting on BPS budget cuts and the proposed unified enrollment program.

At last week’s meeting, former school committ ee member Naimark urged those present to keep pressure on Walsh.

“It’s our job to tell the mayor that the amount he has allocated is not enough,” she said. “He needs to hear from all of us that the political will is there to fully fund the schools.”

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ne of the main reasons I became a filmmaker was to bring Lorraine Hansberry’s story to the screen. My motivation for that audacious goal in my mid-20s — with no experience working on any film or knowing anyone who made films — was solely based on my desire to introduce people to the late writer best known for her first play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” and for them to hear her extraordinary voice.

I’m not sure exactly how I decided to leave my associate program manager job — working on the AT&T Communications account at the cutting-edge marketing company on the waterfront in the late 1980s — to become the receptionist and production secretary at the small company in Watertown that made science, technology and nature documentaries primarily for public television, but it was a convergence of motivations. The most seminal thing happened years before, thanks to my grandmother, when I was 17 in my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

My paternal grandmother was very conscious of the fact that my sister and I were growing up in a rather isolated and primarily white suburban community.

There was at least one residential community that had a sign up describing the homes as “restricted,” and most swimming pools were off-limits to black people.

But I didn’t think I was starved for role models until one day my maternal grandmother drove out to the suburbs to pick us up and take us back into the city to see the play “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.” This play, crafted from Hansberry’s writings after her death, was a revelation! I wondered how it was that I didn’t know about this woman who shared thought and experiences I had, who noticed things that I did, who was black like me.

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Jasmine Carmichael: I’ve actually been very lucky. The first two professional productions that I’ve been in — both times I’ve worked with smaller casts and I got along with that cast as well — and I’m still friends with all of them. I’ve been very fortunate to work with people who have enriched my life and have helped me grow. And, so being here is sometimes very reminiscent of the last show that I worked on just in terms of the cast dynamic, and the positive good will that we all have for one another and for the material.

Can you describe your character Annie, and what was it about her that drew you to the role?

JC: I will try my best. Annie is newly 16 when we meet her on the night of her 16th birthday.

She is a girl transitioning into womanhood and really determining what that means for her, the best road that is for her. That was something that I could relate to very easily — transitioning into adulthood and what that looks like. You want to make the right choices and you can only make a decision based with the knowledge that you have. All these new windows of opportunity are being open to her. All these new avenues are being open to her that she’s considering which she’s never in her life considered before. And so she’s weighing her options and figuring outside of her friends, or outside of who she might be seeing, or outside of her mother’s opinion. What is the best road for her to choose? What is the path that is going to lead her to her best self?

And I think that’s something we all struggle with at one point, actually at multiple points in our

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In just three years, actress Jasmine Carmichael has gone from ensemble player in the Kwame Kwei-Armah-directed play “Dance of The Holy Ghosts” at Center Stage in Baltimore to lead actress in playwright Kirsten Greenidge’s “Milk Like Sugar” at the Calderwood Pavilion in the South End. The actress stars in Greenidge’s Obie Award-winning play, which was partly inspired by the events in 2008 in the town of Gloucester, Mass., in which 18 teenage girls mostly under the age of 16 were part of a “pregnancy pact.” The play is about a pregnancy pact between friends Annie (Jasmine Carmichael), Talisha (Shazi Raja) and Margie (Carolina Sanchdez), but it’s also much more than that, according to Carmichael. It’s about “evolving friendship, evolving relationships with your parent and an evolving relationship with yourself.”

A classically and Shakespearean trained actress, Carmichael earned a BFA in acting from Rutgers University’s Mason School of the Arts. In 2015, she had a starring role as Juliet in the independent feature film “Romeo and Juliet in Harlem,” opposite Harry Lennix (NBC’s “The Blacklist”) and Aunjanue Ellis (ABC’s “Quantico”). She also has appeared in the television series “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Unforgettable” and “The Following.”

Similar to “Annie,” Carmichael came to a point in her life where she needed to figure out her next move. “I remember all the uncertainty that goes along with that, all of the excitement that goes along with that, too. And that really drew me into her. Someone who is really struggling because they really want to do the right thing for them but not really sure what that right thing is, and if there even is really a ‘right thing,’” says the actress on using her own experience to play the teen.

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lives. What path should I choose?

What road is going to be the best road for me? And hoping that you don’t make a mistake and having pressures weighing on you, people’s opinions weighing on you, people’s expectations weighing on you, and trying to weed through all of that, to find your own voice, and to find the courage to listen to your own voice, and trust your own voice.

What do you hope that audience takes away from Annie’s experience?

JC: The universal truth of growing up and how hard that is for everyone, and how even though you might have specific instances in your life that are different from the particular characters in the show, even if you can’t understand specifically what they’re going through, you can relate to

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Since 1871, the Fisk Jubilee Singers have sustained the tradition of the negro spiritual throughout the world. Directed by Paul Kwami, the Singers will perform with narration from former Gov. Deval Patrick and author Sara LawrenceLightfoot. Guests include the Boston Children’s Chorus, Berklee students and faculty such as vocalist Donna McElroy, Dennis Montgomery, and conductor Julius Williams.

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Hansberry died when I was four years old, and by the time I was reading “Ebony,” and sometimes “Jet,” she wasn’t mentioned anymore. Her story, but especially her voice, became filed in my memory as I went on with my life — finishing my senior year of high school, graduating from college and launching and ending a career in advertising and direct marketing to make a film about a woman who inspired me. It is incredible to think that the film on which am working now in 2016 will be the first feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry.

Power of art

My documentary, “Sighted Eyes/ Feeling Heart,” will take the audience on a journey through Lorraine Hansberry’s intense and eventful life to tell a story of one woman who, from a young age, was compelled to fight against injustice of all kinds, ultimately choosing art — the theater specifically — as her chief vehicle. Hansberry believed, “All art is ultimately social; that which agitates and that which prepares the mind for slumber.” Her overnight success helped transform the face of American theater and catapulted her into the spotlight.

Born in 1930, her impassioned and courageous voice drew from the worlds she knew — the struggling, yet fiercely determined community in Chicago’s Depression-era South Side, the vibrant and radical street corners of postWorld War II Harlem and the boundary-defying milieu of 195060s bohemian Greenwich Village.

While publicly outspoken, Hansberry also was racked with many fears, loneliness, self-doubt and conflicts about her sexual identity.

She struggled to write amid the commotion of sudden celebrity and, like many African American artists of the period, juggle the needs of her craft and personal choices while serving as a civil

IF YOU GO The Huntington Theater Company presents “Milk Like Sugar” through February 27 in the

Calderwood Pavilion’s Roberts Studio Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. Single tickets starting at $25 and FlexPasses are on sale; online at huntingtontheatre.org; by phone at 617.266.0800; or in person at the BU Theatre Box Office at 264 Huntington Avenue; and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Box Office located at 527 Tremont Street in the South End. them and can maybe see experiences in your own life where you’ve gone through a struggle that was similar to theirs, maybe emotionally or mentally.

What’s next for you?

JC: You know that question has not been answered for me yet. I’ll be returning to New York.

And that is the life of an actor — always searching for the next thing, the next challenge, the next bit of material. Right now, I’m focused on this wonderful journey. rights spokesperson.

After witnessing the intense violence against young civil rights activists, Hansberry concluded near the end of her life that words and talking may not be enough to change society. In 1965, she died at age 34, just six years after “A Raisin in the Sun” premiered and as her second Broadway play, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” was in production.

“Her commitment of spirit,” wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. for her funeral service, “her creative literary ability and her profound grasp of the deep social issues confronting the world today will remain an inspiration to generations yet unborn.”

Enduring legacy

This film, which I’m making with filmmakers Jamila Wignot and Randall MacLowry, will explore Hansberry’s legacy not only as the author of the play that inspired generations of African American theater professionals, but also as a passionate, complex public intellectual and activist whose voice — 50 years later — remains a relevant and empowering call for her country to live up to its promise of equality and justice for all.

The title for the documentary “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” comes from a keynote speech Hansberry delivered at the First Negro Writers Conference in New York about two weeks before “A Raisin in the Sun” opened on Broadway: “...one cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and react to the miseries that afflict this world.”

I was originally drawn to Lorraine Hansberry because what I knew of her story years ago empowered me as a young, black woman with few role models to launch the career I now have. I am no longer an aspiring filmmaker, and Hansberry is no longer an icon of achievement. I have a much more complex understanding of her life, art and times. What has not changed is that Lorraine Hansberry’s words continue to inspire me. Martin Luther King, Jr. was right about her.

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THURSDAY MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TOUR Meet at The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, 40 Leon St., Boston. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Boston’s free African-American community led the nation in the movement to end slavery and to achieve equal rights. Join us as we learn about this remarkable journey. February 11 at 12pm. Sponsored by The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute. Free and open to the public.

FRIDAY RACIAL WOMANHOOD AND THE PRACTICE OF CUBAN CITIZENSHIP Cuban Studies Program — Takkara Brunson — Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Morgan State University — Racial Womanhood and the Practice of Cuban Citizenship, 1886-1958.

Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Friday, February 12, 12pm, CGIS South S-216, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.

SATURDAY COME OUT AND PLAY! DCR free family friendly programs vacation week February 13 – 21. Fresh air, family fun and fitness are the perfect combination for your February Vacation Week plans. Come out and play in your Massachusetts State Parks and enjoy a fantastic array of free family friendly programs and experiences from Cape Cod to the Berkshires.

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TUESDAY LOOKING BACK SEMINAR SERIES Celebrate Black History Month with the Disparities Solutions Center Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Looking Back Seminar Series — Racial & Ethnic Health & Health Care Disparities & Dysfunction: Historical & Contemporary Issues. Tuesday, February 16, 12-1:30pm*, Sweet Conference Room, Gray/Bigelow 4th Floor, Massachusetts General Hospital. *A light lunch will be served.

The Looking Back seminar reviews a key historical topic in racial and ethnic disparities and highlights its impact on present-day configurations of disparities. The information presented in this seminar will be indispensable for participants interested in applying lessons learned from the past to correct the

contemporary crisis we face in our health care system today. In honor of Black History Month, please join us for a presentation by Drs. W. Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton, nationally known health policy experts whose work focuses on the medical history and health experience of African Americans and other populations that experience disparities in the U.S. health system. Drs. Bryd and Clayton will present the development of the unequal health system that evolved in English North America from antiquity to the present, followed by an exploration of present-day disparities in our health care system. The presentation will include a survey of health and health care disparities in Massachusetts, along with the impact the Affordable Care Act has had on disparities.

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CHILDREN’S WINTER FESTIVAL Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will be bringing the annual Children’s Winter Festival to Boston Common during school vacation week on Tuesday, February 16, from 10am – 4pm. Among the attractions will be Snowzilla, a three-story-high inflatable snow tube slide, and SnowGlobe Live!, a 15-foot-tall snow globe that allows participants to step inside for winter wonderland photos. In addition, the Highland Street Foundation is sponsoring a week-long Winter Camp at the Boston Common Frog Pond with free skating and rentals for all ages from Monday, February 15, through Friday, February 19. For more information on the Winter Camp skating, please visit www.highlandstreet.org. The L.L.Bean Outdoor Discovery School will present activities including, weather permitting, their Snowshoeing Discovery Course, a fun and easy way to try out the sport with expert instructors who will lead an easy guided trek through Boston Common. Snowshoes will be provided and participants should wear weather-appropriate clothing and winter or hiking boots. Additional support is being provided by the Massachusetts WIC Nutrition Program and Internet Essentials from Comcast. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www.cityofboston.gov/ parks or go to www.facebook.com/boston parksdepartment.

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GOSPEL AND BLUES WITH JOHN LINER AND THE FAMILY

In honor of Black History Month, come listen to soulful renditions of blues and gospel from a unique and talented band from Berklee College of Music. With an impressive array of instruments and Liner’s amazing vocals John Liner and the Family is sure to have you dancing all night long! About the band — Liner, who first began to play the trumpet classically while playing gospel music in church, admits that gospel music holds a special place in his heart. “With a family full of singers and musicians it is no surprise to my parents that I kept the musical tradition strong in the family.” Every player in the band, which includes piano, guitar, trumpet, bass, and drums in addition to Liner’s trumpet, has roots in gospel music that extend to their youth. Friday, February 12, 6:30-8pm at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 West Newton St., Boston. Suggested donation of $7. For more information and to buy tickets visit www.ibaboston.org.

Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life, Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Program, the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition and the Sexuality, Gender and the Human Rights Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Harvard Kennedy School. Thursday, February 18, 5pm, Plimpton Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.

HONORING OUR VETERANS A lecture on the history of Black military participation from the American Revolution to the Civil War. Sponsored by The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute. February 18, 4pm at Amilcar Cabral Center, The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, 40 Leon St., Boston. Free and open to the public.

UPCOMING THE BLACK MUSLIM EXPERIENCE Understand the construction of Muslim communities. Sponsored by The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute. February 19 at 7pm. Location: Amilcar Cabral Center, The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, 40 Leon St., Boston.

HOMAGE: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMPOSERS Longy students and faculty will perform works from Willis Patterson’s Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, as well as a piece for saxophone and piano by David Amram. Performers include: Voice: Keith Brinkley, Sigourney Tanner, Joel Edwards, Lamia Porter, and Robert Honeysucker; Saxophone: Theron Leonard; Accompaniment: Thomas Enman, Noriko Yasuda, Alexander Johnson. February 21, Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge, 7pm. Free. No tickets required.

for Death of Salesman are available to the general public for $10, while students and seniors can purchase tickets for $5. The Mainstage is wheelchair accessible. For a full line-up of shows and times, and to purchase tickets, please call 617 541-5380.

LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Dudley Branch Library invites all to our Library Open House. Enjoy light refreshments, family craft and art activities, and live poetry with folks in the community. To honor Black History Month, the branch will be highlighting its African American-centered collection and programming. Come check us out!

Monday, February 29, 4-7pm, Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren St., Roxbury.

CASTLE OF OUR SKINS PRESENTS “NIGHT SONGS” Castle of our Skins, a Boston-based concert and education series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music, will present its second appearance at Roxbury Community College in a concert entitled “Night Songs,” on Friday, March 18 at 7:30pm.

All art songs on the program were written by Black poets ranging from such path setters as Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson to living legends Sonia Sanchez and Cornelius Eady. Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave, Roxbury. Tickets: FREE ADMISSION. For more information, please visit www.Castle-of-our-Skins.com.

MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL DCR Blue Hills Reservation Maple Sugar Festival — It’s sugarin’ time in the Blue Hills! Join us as we make maple syrup in the traditional way at beautiful Brookwood Farm in Canton. Smell the wood smoke as you watch clouds of steam rise from the

bubbling sap. Savor the taste of real maple syrup and enjoy a journey through time as you learn about the history of maple sugar in Massachusetts. Activities for all ages.

Program Admission: $6.00 per person. Ages 2 and under free. March 19 & 20, 10am – 4pm. Maple Sugar Festival is a joint program of the DCR and Mass Audubon’s Trailside Museum. Brookwood Farm is located in the DCR Blue Hills Reservation in Canton. Take exit 3 (Houghton’s Pond) off Route 93 and follow signs to Maple Sugar Festival parking. This program is wheelchair accessible. For more information, please call 617-333-0690.

ONGOING JOCELYN CHEMEL EXHIBIT Growing up just a few doors down from Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa, Jocelyn Chemel was taught to keep quiet. Jail time was an ever-present threat and as Chemel’s parents searched for an exit strategy she took in the violence around her in silence. Now she’s speaking out about the atrocities she witnessed through a brave series of mixed media artworks. City Hall has invited Chemel to show her work as part of Black History Month and Chemel will also show at the historic Strand Theatre in Dorchester. The barbed wire and shadowy figures in Chemel’s work strike a particularly resonant chord in Boston, a city with a long history of support of Nelson Mandela’s anti-apartheid, pro-education stance. The Hub has never forgotten Mandela’s 1990 speech at Madison Park High School in Roxbury, and many civic leaders still study his teachings. BARBED, Mayor’s Neighborhood Gallery, 2nd floor, Boston City Hall, through February 28.

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ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN Recognizing 100 years of the genius of Arthur Miller, Roxbury Repertory Theater will present his highly acclaimed masterpiece, Death of a Salesman. The performances begin on February 25 at 10am and the final performance will be held on March 5 at 2pm. The performances are held at the Media Arts Center’s Mainstage (Building 1), 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury. Tickets

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Chicken and Broccoli Casserole Serves 4 n 6 cups bite-size broccoli florets and stems, peeled and cut into small pieces n 1½ cups (6 ounces) hot cooked boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size chunks n ¼ cup diced, drained jarred roasted red pepper, patted dry n 3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons butter, divided n 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour n 1½ cups 2 percent reduced-fat milk n 1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth n Pinch ground nutmeg n ½ teaspoon coarse salt n 1⁄8 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper n 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded sharp Cheddar cheese n 1 cup fresh breadcrumbs

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Preheat oven to 425F. Coat a 10-inch round shallow baking dish with cooking spray.

Steam or boil broccoli 3 minutes, or until crisp-tender. Arrange in dish and top with chicken and red pepper.

In medium saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons butter.

Add flour and cook 1 minute, whisking constantly.

Add milk and broth, whisking constantly until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat and cook 2 minutes. Stir in nutmeg, salt, pepper and cheese.

Pour over chicken.

In a small skillet, melt remaining 2 teaspoons butter; add breadcrumbs. Sprinkle over chicken mixture.

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Show your love on Valentine’s Day This Valentine’s Day, start a new tradition by creating a basket full of treats and fun activities your whole family will love. From candy to baked goods to activities you can do together, here are a few basket themes to consider to help send a message of love this Valentine’s Day. n Scavenger hunt basket. Have written clues in a basket full of goodies to start a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt. Hide sweet treats around the house along with little messages of love.

Or, hide Hershey’s Kisses Conversation Candies featuring sayings such as “XOXO” and “BE MINE” on each foil around the house. n Playing pretend basket.

Reading is a great way to spend time with your kids. Fill a basket with your favorite books and corresponding props for your little cuties. Read the books together and use the props to re-enact your favorite parts of the story together. n Fun and games basket. Create a game night basket the whole family is sure to love. Make things a little more fun by creating your own game or playing an old classic using wrapped candy as playing pieces. You can even play tic-tac-toe or checkers using small wrapped chocolates as the tokens.

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Fuel Up Smoothie Serves: 1 n 1½ cups TruMoo Calcium Plus low-fat chocolate milk n ½ cup baby kale n 1 cup ice cubes n 1 tablespoon almond butter In blender, combine chocolate milk, baby kale, ice cubes and almond butter.

Blend until smooth and frothy. Serve.

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WORD TO THE WISE Saffron: Richly flavored and intensely aromatic, these golden-orange threads are the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus.

Saffron is be harvested by hand, and ounce for ounce it is the most expensive spice in the world.

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MCAD

continued from page 1 to 1980, spoke about the tense years during service.

In the 1970s and ’80s, virtually every major city department was sued for discrimination against blacks and Latinos — the Boston School Department, the police and Fire Departments and the Boston Housing Authority were all subjected to court orders which called for mandatory hiring of blacks and Latinos to remedy court findings of discrimination against minority job applicants.

“When Mayor [Kevin] White asked ‘Why us?’ we said we thought the city of Boston was among the nation’s worst with regard to municipal hiring.”

An evolving mandate

The roots of the MCAD go back to the post-WWII era. In 1946 Massachusetts Gov. Maurice Tobin signed a law establishing the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Commission. The agency began hearing cases of employment discrimination with just two employees and three volunteer commissioners.

In 1950, the agency’s name was changed to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Its mandate was then expanded to include housing and public accommodation.

Now, 70 years after the agency’s founding, in addition to discrimination based on race and ethnicity, the commission investigates discrimination complaints based on sex, gender identity, age, disability, pregnancy status, parental leave and domestic workers. The MCAD has offices in Boston, New Bedford, Springfield and Worcester.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE MCAD

MCAD commissioners past and present gathered at a conference marking the agency’s 70th anniversary: Former Chairman Michael Duffy, appointed in 1991; former Commissioner Douglas Schwarz, appointed in 1997, former Chairman Chuck Walker, appointed in 1997; current Commissioner Sunila Thomas George; current Chairwoman Jamie R. Williamson; current Commissioner Charlotte Golar Richie; former Chairwoman Jane Edmonds, appointed in 1977; former Chairman Alex Rodriguez, appointed in 1985.

Former commissioner Chuck Walker, who was appointed chairman of the agency in 1997, said the caseload grew as new forms of discrimination were added to its mandate.

“Our cases just exploded,” he said. “The real challenge was that the MCAD had to educate employers,” he said.

Despite their bigger mandate, however, the agency has not received substantial increases in funding, current Chairwoman Jamie Williamson noted. The current level of funding curtails the agency’s ability to try more innovative approaches to fighting discrimination, leaving its staff often struggling to keep up with a backlog of complaints filed by those seeking redress for discriminatory behavior.

“We are woefully underfunded,”

FUN&GAMES SUDOKU: SEE ANSWERS ON PAGE 19

she said. “We are woefully understaffed. As much as we would like to do the work you did, we can only do the work we’re funded to do.”

MCAD under cover

Former commissioner Michael Duffy, who served as MCAD Chairman from 1991 to 1996, said he tapped law school interns to serve as undercover investigators to probe racial and age discrimination in hiring.

“We had no funding for it, but we used law students,” he said.

In one case, Duffy sent one white student and one black student to respond to a help wanted advertisement for an assistant store manager at a Brooks Brothers store in Back Bay. While the black student was told no such position was available, the white student was encouraged to apply for

the position.

At the time, the store had 72 employees, 70 of whom were white and one of whom was Asian.

“There was one black employee who was a stock clerk,” Duffy said.

The case made headlines and raised awareness of discrimination in hiring.

“We did it on the cheap, with no funding,” Duffy said.

Williamson, however, said it’s less feasible to use unpaid interns in Boston today, when the average apartment rents for $2,000 a month. While the agency has an intern program, Williamson noted that very few students of color can afford to intern without compensation.

“To ask people to do civil rights work for free, while other people are getting millions to do stupid things, is appalling,” she said.

Walker, a former administrative judge with the state’s Department of Industrial Accidents, said he increased the MCAD’s use of mediation during his tenure – an approach he said had its ups and downs. Among the drawbacks are that when cases are settled without a ruling from the agency, there’s little publicity to discourage other employers from discrimination and no legal precedents are set.

But sometimes complainants don’t want to litigate their cases, Walker said, pointing to the case of a Muslim woman who was refused bus service by an MBTA driver.

When her attorney asked what she wanted from the mediation process, the woman said she did not want a cash settlement.

“She wanted an apology,” Walker recalled. “She wanted total accountability.”

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS

LEGAL

LEGAL

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

LEGAL

LEGAL NOTICE TOWN OF ARLINGTON

This project is covered by Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968.

The Contract Documents may be viewed at:

Docket No. SU95P1553

SUFFOLK Division

Project Dog 18 Graf Road Suite #8 Newburyport, MA 01950 (978) 499-9014

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Resignation of a Guardian of an Incapacitated Person In the Interests of Derrick Ebanks RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept. of Mental Health (Boston) of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Accept the Resignation of the Guardian of the Respondent.

The petition asks the court to make a determination that the Guardian and/ or Conservator should be allowed to resign; or should be removed for good cause; or that the Guardianship and/or Conservatorship is no longer necessary and therefore should be terminated. The original petition is on file with the court.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 03/10/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the avoenamed person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer.

Anyone may make this request on bhlaf of the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: February 01, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P3162GD

SUFFOLK Division

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Howard Denton Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by DMH c/o Office of General Counsel of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Howard Denton is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Robert Christian, Esq. of Melrose, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 03/10/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: January 27, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate LEGAL NOTICE TOWN OF ARLINGTON

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM (CDBG) PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations formulated thereunder, notice is hereby given that the Town of Arlington, acting through the Town Manager and the Board of Selectmen, will hold a Public Hearing on the Community Development Block Grant Program. The purpose of this hearing is to receive proposals for funds for our CDBG Program Year 42 (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017).

Said hearing will be held at 7:15 P.M., MONDAY, February 22, 2016 IN THE SELECTMEN’S MEETING ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE ROBBINS MEMORIAL TOWN HALL, 730 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The Town expects to receive approximately $1,000,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for CDBG Program Year 42. There is a HUD requirement that all funded programs must principally benefit persons of low and moderate income; aid in the prevention of slums and blight; or meet other urgent community development needs that pose a threat to the health or welfare of the community. For further information and technical assistance in determining eligibility of proposed programs and in preparing proposals for funding, please contact the Department of Planning and Community Development, 730 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, Massachusetts 02476, at (781) 316-3095.

Proposals for the use of funds must be submitted using the Town’s standard CDBG application which can be accessed at www.arlingtonma.gov/cdbg or by contacting the Planning Department at 781-316-3091. Applications must be received by the Department of Planning and Community Development no later than noon on Friday, February 12, 2016.

The Selectmen’s Meeting Room is accessible for the mobility impaired. If you require other assistance in obtaining access to the hearing, or to the materials to be presented, please contact the Arlington Commission on Disabilities office at (781) 316-3431 during business hours.

Adam Chapdelaine Town Manager

Kevin F. Greeley, Chair Board of Selectmen

INVITATION FOR BIDS The Brookline Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids for the Boiler and Domestic Water Heater Replacement Project at the Colonel Floyd & Walnut Street Apartments Federal Housing Developments in Brookline, Massachusetts, in accordance with the project documents prepared by Crowley Engineering, Inc. General bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM) in the HVAC category. Bidders must include a current DCAM Certificate of Eligibility and a signed DCAM Update Statement (Form CQ3).

The Project consists of: Replacement of existing boilers, piping, accessories and select domestic water heaters at the Colonel Floyd and Walnut Street Apartments.

The work is estimated to cost $285,000.00 General Bids will be received until 2:00 PM, Thursday, March 3, 2016 and publicly opened forthwith online.

Filed sub-bids for the trades listed below will be received until 2:00 PM, Thursday, February 25, 2016 and publicly opened forthwith online.

Filed sub-bidders must be DCAM certified for the trades listed below and bidders must include a current DCAM Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility and a signed DCAM Sub-Bidder’s Update Statement (Form CQ3).

SUBTRADES Section 15400 Plumbing

General bids and sub-bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates) and made payable to the Brookline Housing Authority.

A PRE-BID Walkthrough shall be held at the Brookline Housing Authority Office located at 190 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446 on February 17, 2016 @ 10:30 AM. Contractors shall meet at the Housing Authority Office and shall later proceed to the two (2) sites of the project.

All questions regarding the plans and technical specifications are to be forwarded in writing to: Crowley Engineering, Inc. c/o Marty Vickey 245 County Street, Unit 6, Taunton, MA 02780 (email: mvickey@crowleyeng.com THIS PROJECT IS BEING ELECTRONICALLY BID AND HARD COPY BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please review the instructions in the bid documents on how to register as an electronic bidder. The bids are to be prepared and submitted at www.BidDocsOnline.com. Tutorials and instructions on how to complete the electronic bid documents are available online (click on the “Tutorial” tab at the bottom footer).

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations formulated thereunder, notice is hereby given that the Town of Arlington, acting through the Town Manager and the Board of Selectmen, will hold a public hearing on the Community Development Block Grant Program. This public hearing is intended to obtain views from citizens, public agencies and other interested parties on housing and community development needs in the Town and discuss the performance of the CDBG Program and activities currently underway. Information gathered at the hearing will be used to assist the Town in the development of its Annual Action Plan as part of the Five Year Consolidated Plan for submission to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Said hearing will be held at 7:15 P.M., MONDAY, February 22, 2016 IN THE SELECTMEN’S MEETING ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE ROBBINS MEMORIAL TOWN HALL, 730 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS. All interested persons are encouraged to attend. Written comments are welcomed, and may be submitted to the Department of Planning and Community Development, 730 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02476

by February 29, 2016.

The Selectmen’s Meeting Room is accessible for the mobility impaired. If you require other assistance in obtaining access to the hearing, or to the materials to be presented, please contact the Arlington Commission on Disabilities office at (781) 316-3431, during business hours.

Adam Chapdelaine Town Manager

Kevin F. Greeley, Chair Board of Selectmen

All Bids shall be submitted electronically online at www.BidDocsOnline.com no later than the date & time specified above.

Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up on February 10, 2016 at www.BidDocsOnline.com (may be viewed electronically and hardcopy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc. at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA 01749 (978-568-1167) There is a plan deposit of $25 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to BidDocs Online, Inc. Deposits must be a certified or cashier’s check, or money order. This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty (30) days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority.

Additional sets may be purchased for $25.00 Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $65.00 per set for UPS Overnight), payable to BidDocs Online, Inc. to cover mail handling costs.

Bids and the Contract are subject to: M.G.L. c.149 §44A-J and to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Equal Opportunity provisions of Executive Order 11246, Non-Discrimination provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Labor Standards of the Davis-Bacon Act and related acts and Contract Work Hours Standard Act, and prevailing wage determinations as issued by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. The work performed under this contract is funded in part through the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and is subject to all provisions and regulations issued pursuant to this act.

MHC/Joseph Merrit & Co 17 Everberg Road - Unit C Woburn, MA 01801 (781) 430-2008

Reed Construction Data Document Processing Center 30 Technology Parkway South, Suite 500 Norcross, GA 30092-4578 (203) 426-0450 BROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITY By: Patrick Dober Executive Director February 10, 2016 MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1607-C1, FY16-18 WATERFRONT REPAIR TERM CONTRACT, SOUTH BOSTON AND EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 021282909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00AM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2016.

The work includes VARIOUS WATERFRONT REPAIRS, ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, AND REMOVAL OF SPILL CONTAINMENT BOOMS; RETRIEVAL AND DISPOSAL OF FLOATING DEBRIS; EXTRACTION AND DISPOSAL OF DAMAGED TIMBER OR TIMBER DEBRIS; SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF NEW TIMBER FENDERS; SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF NEW TIMBER CURBS; SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF NEW TIMBER PILES; AND REPLACEMENT OF BUOY MOORING CHAINS AND HARDWARE. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated contract cost is SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($750,000.00).

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $10,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting General Engineering Consulting (GEC) Services for the MBTA’s Operations and Service Development Department on a task order basis. The amount of $4,500,000, with $1,500,000 available for each of the three consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project.

Services will include but not be limited to advice and consultation with Operations on matters of general operations planning, engineering, and new technologies.

This contract will be Federally and State Funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 11%.

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO

Francis A. DePaola, PE General Manager

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MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS

REAL ESTATE HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY 1 AFFORDABLE SINGLE FAMILY HOME (with condo association)

Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date.

Cottages at River Hill, West Newbury, Ma TO BE SOLD BY LOTTERY TO ELIGIBLE HOMEBUYER

Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. S19CN01, ON-CALL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES – STATIONS, FACILITIES & GARAGES, VARIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS (CLASS 1 – STATIONS and CLASS 7 – FACILITIES & BUILDINGS, PROJECT VALUE - $14,700,000.00), can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on March 22, 2016.

Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.

Work consists of providing construction-related services on an on-call basis to support urgent repair/reconstruction needs of the Authority. Work is anticipated to be performed throughout the MBTA service area in Massachusetts and will primarily consist of buildings, facilities, parking garages, utilities and site work.

Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti- Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of Nine (9) percent.

(1) 2-Bed, 1 Bath Single Family Home $165,900; 1134 Apprx SF Max income:

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

1 person

2 Persons

3 Persons

4 Persons

$46,100

$52,650

$59,250

$65,800

Asset Limitation $75,000, as defined Other Restrictions Apply Applications at: • West Newbury Public Library • West Newbury Town Offices • Or Write To: JTE Realty Assoc., LLC, P. O. Box 955, North Andover, Ma. 01845 Or e-mail: cottages@jterealtyassociates.com MAILING ADDRESS MUST BE PROVIDED 978-258-3492

Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/cur rent_solicitations/ On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders

HELP WANTED

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United Housing Management is currently seeking the professional below. Please forward resumes no later than February 12, 2016 to 530 Warren Street, Dorchester, MA 02121 or fax to 617-442-7231.

Occupancy Specialist: The ideal candidate will have 3 years of experience in Tax Credit and Section 8 Housing. (COS) certification is required - Tax Credit experience is a plus. Candidate will maintain the waiting list of applicants for housing; strong organizational skills and attention to detail are required – bilingual English/Spanish is a plus. Transportation is a must.

Application Deadline Received by February 29, 2016

United Housing Management LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

HELP WANTED

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. General Manager of the MBTA

Staff Attorney, Maine

February 8, 2016 INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

*WRA-4170

Purchase of Two (2) New 02/23/16 Freightliner M2-106 Diesel Powered Crew Cab of Equal with Wachs Hydraulic Gate Valve Turner (per Specifications)

12:00 p.m.

*S551

Thermal and Hydro Power Plant Maintenance

03/03/16

2:00 p.m.

**F238

Request for Letters of Interest – Insurance Services

03/04/16

4:00 p.m.

Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is seeking a staff attorney to work in its Maine Advocacy Center. Working with the director of the Maine Advocacy Center, as well as advocacy program directors, the Maine staff attorney will be responsible for identifying and implementing cutting-edge solutions to a variety of compelling environmental problems in Maine and regionally.

To learn more about this position, please visit us at www.clf.org.

New Jobs In Fast-Growing

HEALTH INSURANCE FIELD!

*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com.

Companies Now Hiring MEMBER SERVICE CALL CENTER REPS Rapid career growth potential

**To obtain the complete Request for Letters of Interest email request to MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

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Are you a “people person?” Do you like to help others?

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These positions are full time with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package. Faculty positions are for the Fall semester 2016.

To Apply: Visit the Quinsigamond website at www.QCC.edu/human-resources for a complete job description, qualifications and application procedures. All applicants must apply online for these positions.

QCC is an equal opportunity affirmative action college supporting diversity.

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ASSET BUILDING Ad #: 23147-6 SOUGHT COORDINATOR

Publication: Bay State Banner

Somerville Community Corporation (SCC) seeks a Program Run Date: 2/4/16 Coordinator to join our Asset Building team. SCC is a 46 year old Section: HWCorporation Education nonprofit Community Development (CDC) and the only CDC in Somerville (MA).Cost: SCC is seeking a new member of our team to manage $235.00 + $125.00 Internet and deliver the Financial Education, First Time Home Buyer education, and Size: 2 Our colideal x 3candidate inches is an entrepreneurial IDA matched savings programs. self-starter who is mission driven and works well independently and as part of a team. They will have experience teaching groups of low and moderate income adults and training in one or more aspects of household finance.

See www.somervillecdc.org for a complete job description.

Promotions Coordinator

Senior Living At It’s Best

Call Sandy Miller,

DENTAL HYGIENE

Somerville Community Corporation is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170

0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.

NURSING FACULTY Associate Degree in Nursing/Practical Nursing

Submit a cover letter, along with a resume to: Ann L Silverman Consulting, somervillecdcjobs@gmail.com. No phone calls or letters please.

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Faculty (Fall 2016) Openings:

Program eligibility includes: • • • • •

Have a high school diploma or equivalent Have a verifiable reference of 1 year from a former employer Pass assessments in reading, language, and computer skills Have CORI clearance Be legally authorized to work in the United States

For more information and to register for the next Open House please visit our website at www.prohope.org/openhouse.htm or call 617-442-1880 ext. 218.

HOT 96.9 is hiring a Promotions Coordinator. If you’re creative, energetic, upbeat, organized and can juggle multiple projects at once and excel at all of them, we want to hear from you!

Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years of radio promotional experience and be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Photoshop. A flexible schedule is required, including some nights and weekends. Excellent communications skills, writing skills and creativity are integral to this position. For more details on this job, visit hot969boston.com.

Position is full time and includes benefits. Qualified applicants can send a cover letter and resume to: hr@greatermediaboston.com. ~ No phone calls, please ~ Greater Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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